Archives - 28 November 2012, Wednesday

28 November 2012 Last updated at 01:49 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Rewards set to halve for digital money miners Bitcoin "miners" generate the coins by completing work on a computer Continue reading the main story Related Stories ...

28 November 2012 Last updated at 01:49 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Rewards set to halve for digital money miners Bitcoin "miners" generate the coins by completing work on a computer Continue reading the main story Related Stories ...

We're going to cut right to the chase: unless we receive a major influx of contributions in the next few days, we're going to have to cut our tiny staff of seven  and that means the effective end of the kind of coverage you're used to from Antiwar.com. It doesn't have to be this way ...

28 November 2012 Last updated at 01:49 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Rewards set to halve for digital money miners Bitcoin "miners" generate the coins by completing work on a computer Continue reading the main story Related Stories ...

There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the block reward halving and the effect it will have on nearly every aspect of Bitcoin. The halving mechanism is a very important part of Bitcoin’s functionality, ensuring that over time the inflation rate decreases to zero and creating the h...

28 November 2012 Last updated at 01:49 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Rewards set to halve for digital money miners Bitcoin "miners" generate the coins by completing work on a computer Continue reading the main story Related Stories ...

The total number of Bitcoins in circulation just hit 10.5 million, triggering a safeguard against inflation that was hardcoded into the digital currency. This means a drastic change in the number of new Bitcoins being created, which is expected to have a huge impact on the economy tha...

Today, the Bitcoin community celebrates a major milestone, the first “halving day.” For the first three years of the Bitcoin Network’s existence, each time a ‘block’ was found, 50 Bitcoins were issued to the lucky finder. As of 11/28/2012 at 15:24:38 UTC, however, only 25 BTC will be ...

ProtoParadigm is proud to announce that we will now be accepting Bitcoin! At first we need to call this a trial, but as long as everything keeps moving smoothly, we'll keep taking them. If you don't know what Bitcoin is, take a look at this video: Bitcoin is a software and communicati...

gAtO tHiNk - Money is what keeps score -but after the game is over it all goes back inside the box. We all play the game of money, currency has been around forever when we started to civilize the world the first thing we did was put value on skills then on objects. Whatever the price ...

You have asked for it. Now you have it. Antiwar.com is accepting Bitcoin. “Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency . Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the network.”

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Bitcoin works by having "blocks" of data, containing transaction history (every Bitcoin transfer someone has made - it is only actually made when incorporated into a block), "mined" by a network. These blocks are mined by incrementing a value in the block of data computing a hash of i...

gAtO tHiNk - money is what keeps score -but after the game is over it all goes back inside the box. We all play the game of money, currency has been around forever when we started to civilize the world the first thing we did was put value on skills then on objects. Whatever the price ...

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How can one embed custom data in block headers? Is the timestamp in the genesis block relevant? How is block-solution-withholding a threat to mining pools? What are the advantages/disadvantages of a continuously decreasing block reward compared to the current method? Bitcoin Block Siz...